Camp out with Mike

It had been a long summer with little to do. The heat was stifling and so most of the time was spent sitting inside watching movies with the AC on. Towards the end of the summer, we were getting sick of watching the same videos over and over again and so we made plans to go camping for a few days.

Suddenly we had something to do and we set about organising it quickly, the sooner we worked everything out, the sooner we could leave. We lived on the outskirts of the city and knew that we could be out into the forest within a few hours walking. I had been out on a fishing trip when I was young with my dad and a few uncles and remembered we camped in a beautiful spot by the side of a lake. After looking at maps I was pretty sure I remembered where it had been and convinced Mike that we should hike out to there and sleep out by the lake. Mike was as keen on the trip as I was, but I didn’t think he had all the same reasons for the trip that I did….

I had known Mike since we were both small, he lived a few doors down from my family. He was in the same class as me through school but was one of the youngest in our year, so was a good number of months younger than me. He was a few inches shorter than me with short dark brown hair. I would never have considered myself as gay or even bisexual, but part of me had always had something for Mike, when we were young I had just put it down to the fact he was my best friend, but as we grew older I began to notice more and more quite how cute he was. We had both been on a few dates with some of the girls in our year but neither of us were successful with the ladies by any stretch. Mike always struggled as he was quite shy and got tongue tied around the girls, even when they were throwing themselves at him.

Everything was set and we set off first thing Saturday morning. We had a long hike ahead of us to get to the lake and in some ways we couldn’t have chosen a worse day. The clear blue skies and blazing sun wasn’t the easier weather for hiking, it must have been near 40 degrees in the sun. We quickly got to the footpath at the edge of the forest and were glad of the shade, though it was still hot.

After hours of walking through the trees we reached the lake.